Re: [Webwork-user] Reporting

[Bill B. <bi...@pr...>]

Hello Peter,

The obvious answers might be to generate PDF using Apache FOP or iText.

The less obvious:
* Generate RTF using Velocity:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=velocity-user&m=101906618924386&w=2.

* If all your users have M$ Excel installed, generate HTML tables but
output the Excel MIME type.  Not sure, but I think if you use <th>...</th>
tags for your headings, Excel will use the content for the page header
when printing.  In any case, mock up at least one page of output in Excel
so it prints the way you want including the use of the desired format for
cells.  Then save the file as a single HTML page.  Use that as the basis
of a Velocity or JSP template.

Hope this helps,
-Bill

Peter Kelley wrote:
> 
> Has anyone come up with a good way to hang printable reports off
> webwork actions which supply the report data ?
> 
> --
> 
> regards,
> Peter Kelley
> 
> MoveIt Pty Ltd